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Study Guides in Education

Study Guides in Education

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Study Guides & Tools for Thought & Practice

These guides were made for real moments—with children, in classrooms, and alongside parents. They’re not a method. They’re working tools: ways to notice, to shift language, to rearrange space or materials, to clarify values, and to interrupt habits we didn’t know we were following. Some help craft statements of intention. Others offer concrete ways to act. Use what fits.

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All Writing
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EDUCATION
Name
TYPE
The Boy, a Poem on The Language of Othering
ESSAY
The Gift of Boredom: Why Your Child Needs More Unstimulated Time
ESSAY
Clay, Bird, and Child in Dialogue
JOURNAL
Threads of Interest: Bird Alarm Calls ➜ Field Pressure ➜Nature of Presence ➜ Emptiness of Reaching
RABBIT HOLES
The Mind Has Shape: The Forest as Mirror
ESSAY
Tumbling Over the Edge: Bev Bos and the Radical Wonder of Childhood
ESSAY
STUDY GUIDE Coyote’s Path: Mentoring as Nature Connection
STUDY GUIDE-Education
Threads of Interest: Following Presence: Notes and Wonderings
RABBIT HOLES
Not Practicing Presence: What Krishnamurti Might Say to Educators
ESSAY
Bhramari Pranayama with Emily
MINDFULNESS
Mindful Pause with Emily
MINDFULNESS
Friends for the Mushrooms
JOURNAL
Writing Again after Neurological Injury
REFLECTION
A Dialogue in Clay: Fiona’s first Encounter
JOURNAL
The Marble Run
JOURNAL
It Started with a Wheel
JOURNAL
A Review of The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer
BOOK REFLECTION
REVIEW Ethics and Politics in Early Childhood Education, Gunilla Dahlberg & Peter Moss currently reading
BOOK REVIEW
Whale Rock: The Pedagogy of the Inside Joke by Andrew
JOURNAL
REVIEW Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
BOOK REFLECTION
REVIEW Visible Learners: Promoting Reggio-Inspired Approaches in All Schools
BOOK REVIEW
REVIEW Making Learning Visible by Project Zero & Reggio Children
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
BOOK REFLECTION
BOOK In Dialogue with Reggio Emilia, Carlina Rinaldi
BOOK REFLECTION
What Is the Reggio Emilia Approach? A Living Philosophy of Childhood
ESSAY
“The Right Number of Bloody Owies”
JOURNAL
What Carries a Child: Building Resilience Through Nature
JOURNAL
The Hammer Wasn’t Wrong-Who gets to decide what belongs in school?
JOURNAL
Trusting Children with Risk Is Not Recklessness
JOURNAL
Listening with a Pen: Mapping Shapes of Alarm
JOURNAL
A Book, a Creek, and a Circle of Joy
JOURNAL
She Reads with Her Whole Heart
JOURNAL
Reading to the Sapling
JOURNAL
The Creek Teaches Everything
JOURNAL
Running Toward Themselves
JOURNAL
Reclaiming the Continuum: An Analysis of Jean Liedloff’s Vision for Human Development
ESSAY
STUDY GUIDE Living by Design, Not Default: Drafting Your Family Values Statement
STUDY GUIDE-Education
GUIDE Empathic Listening: Deep Connection for Parents and Educators
STUDY GUIDE-Education
Pause. Wonder. Repair. Return: A New Rhythm for Compassionate Parenting and Teaching
STUDY GUIDE-Education
Loose Parts: The Open Invitation of Play
ESSAY
The History of Forest Schools
ESSAY
Reflection on Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature, Jon Young
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK Free to Learn, by Peter Gray
BOOK REVIEW
What Exactly Is Play?
ESSAY
Three Approaches from Europe:Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia (Edwards)
ESSAY
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BUDDHISM
Name
TYPE
Did the Buddha Claim Omniscience?
REFLECTION
The Second Arrow: How We Multiply Pain
ESSAY
The Four Noble Truths
ESSAY
Nothing Out of Place: Loneliness and the Dhamma of Staying Present
ESSAY
Is Mindfulness Really Buddhist? A Closer Look at Sammāsati
STUDY GUIDE Buddhism
Threads of Interest: Ashokan Pillars and the Evolution of Language and Writing
RABBIT HOLES
Threads of Interest: How Buddhism moved through the ancient world
RABBIT HOLES
What is Buddhism? An Introduction for the Curious.
STUDY GUIDE Buddhism
GUIDE Empathic Listening: Deep Connection for Parents and EducatorsGUIDE Empathic Listening:  Deep Connection for Parents and Educators
GUIDE Empathic Listening: Deep Connection for Parents and Educators

Presents the principles of empathic listening as relational practice. Offers tools for presence, reflection, and attunement—fostering trust and emotional safety in both home and classroom.

pedagogical presencepedagogical presenceNVC (Non-Violent Communication)NVC (Non-Violent Communication)
5 Min Read
STUDY GUIDE Living by Design, Not Default: Drafting Your Family Values StatementSTUDY GUIDE Living by Design, Not Default: Drafting Your Family Values Statement
STUDY GUIDE Living by Design, Not Default: Drafting Your Family Values Statement

Guides families through creating a values statement that reflects intentional choices, not cultural defaults. Encourages clarity, coherence, and alignment between beliefs, parenting, and daily life.

Family ValuesFamily Valuespedagogical presencepedagogical presence
Mini Guide20 Min Read
STUDY GUIDE Coyote’s Path: Mentoring as Nature ConnectionSTUDY GUIDE Coyote’s Path: Mentoring as Nature Connection
STUDY GUIDE Coyote’s Path: Mentoring as Nature Connection

A nature-based approach using curiosity, storytelling, and invisible guidance to foster deep connection with the land, self, and others, supporting cultural repair and renewal.

Jon Young, The Art of MentoringJon Young, The Art of MentoringCoyote MentoringCoyote MentoringBird Language-Shapes of AlarmBird Language-Shapes of Alarm
Comprehensive Guide20 Min Read
Pause. Wonder. Repair. Return: A New Rhythm for Compassionate Parenting and TeachingPause. Wonder. Repair. Return: A New Rhythm for Compassionate Parenting and Teaching
Pause. Wonder. Repair. Return: A New Rhythm for Compassionate Parenting and Teaching

Introduces a rhythm for compassionate parenting and teaching that supports emotional presence, repair after rupture, and trust in relational growth—rooted in nonviolence and mindfulness.

pedagogical presencepedagogical presence
15 Min Read